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Voters' lists and registers

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Kind official statistical series
Producer Department of the Interior / registration officers
Coverage 1907-1980
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 5

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Cillié et al. (1980) Voters' lists from the 1979 general registration of voters, corrected by supplementary registrations to 31 March 1980 (the 'fixed date') 1979 registration, corrected to 31 March 1980 Supplies the white voter counts by province, division and polling district that fix the provincial quotas and every load/unload figure in the delimitation.
Laurence et al. (1913) Natal registers 1911-12 and 1912-13 1911-1913 Used to choose the 1911 register as the basis and to check whether voter movements in 1912-13 justified changes.
Laurence et al. (1913) Orange Free State registration of 1912 and the 1910 list 1910-1912 Shows that all OFS divisions stayed within the statutory limits on the recent register, so few changes were needed.
Laurence et al. (1913) Voters' registers 1911/1912 (Cape, Transvaal, Natal, Orange Free State) 1907-1912 Supplies electorate totals and per-division voter numbers on which the new quotas, minima, maxima and the schedules of divisions are based.
Potgieter et al. (1966) Certificate of the Secretary for the Interior on the Cape Coloured voters' list 1 June 1965 Gives 30,086 registered Coloured voters and the division counts (Boland, Karoo, Outeniqua, Peninsula) that set the Coloured quota of 7,521.
Potgieter et al. (1966) Polling district and block voter registers, as basis for per-division counts 1965 Supplies the voter numbers moved between divisions (e.g. 1,417 voters from Bergvliet to Constantia) and resulting load/unload percentages.
Potgieter et al. (1966) Registered White voters' lists as at 1 June 1965, furnished by the Chief Electoral Officer 1 June 1965 Establishes the national total of 1,840,530 White voters and the quota of 11,503 (max 13,228, min 9,778) on which all divisions are delimited.